NSIC (Division II) Men’s Basketball Coach Salaries
Head coach pay at the 16 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) men’s basketball programs, an NCAA Division II conference in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, for 2026–27. Eleven schools are public, so pay is public record, but we could not check state payroll data for this report; five are private and publish nothing. Every dollar figure below is labeled Unconfirmed, and most are estimated ranges, not individual salaries. Women’s programs: NSIC women’s basketball coach salaries.
Key numbers
- Median head coach pay: about $102,500 across all 16 programs (range midpoints). Midpoints run from about $81,500 (Jamestown) to $188,620 (Minnesota State).
- Minnesota State’s Matt Margenthaler is the one exact figure, at $188,620. It comes from a compiled file that attributes it to the state payroll roster; we could not check it. His team won the 2024 national championship and he signed a five-year extension from July 1, 2024 with terms not released.
- Four programs are in the second season of a coach hired in spring 2025: Northern State (Matt Wilber), Mary (Darren Tighe), MSU Moorhead (Jason Kemp) and Minot State (Randall Herbst). All 16 men’s coaches are listed in the league’s 2026–27 preseason poll.
- No NSIC pay figure here is confirmed from a contract, payroll record or news report. Treat every number as approximate.
Head coach pay by school
| School | Head coach | Pay | Basis | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota State (Mankato) | Matt Margenthaler | $188,620 | Reported figure | Unconfirmed | 26th season. 2024 national champions; five-year extension from July 1, 2024 (terms not released). $188,620 is the file’s figure, listed as from the state roster; we could not check it |
| Minnesota Duluth | Justin Wieck | $115,000–$130,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Ninth season; extension through 2028–29 |
| Southwest Minnesota State | Brad Bigler | $105,000–$120,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 18th season |
| Augustana (private) | Cody Schilling | $100,000–$120,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Third season |
| Winona State | Todd Eisner | $100,000–$118,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 12th season |
| St. Cloud State | Quincy Henderson | $95,000–$112,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Fifth season; extension through 2029–30 |
| MSU Moorhead | Jason Kemp | $95,000–$110,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Second season. Named May 1, 2025 after Tim Bergstraser left for Denver |
| Northern State | Matt Wilber | $95,000–$110,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Second season. Named March 2025 to replace Saul Phillips |
| Wayne State (Neb.) | Jeff Kaminsky | $95,000–$110,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 11th season |
| Bemidji State | Mike Boschee | $90,000–$105,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 15th season |
| Minot State | Randall Herbst | $90,000–$105,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Second season. Named May 2025 |
| Concordia–St. Paul (private) | Matt Fletcher | $85,000–$105,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Seventh season. Private school does not publish pay |
| Sioux Falls (private) | Chris Johnson | $85,000–$105,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 19th season. Private school does not publish pay |
| Mary (private) | Darren Tighe | $80,000–$95,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Second season. Named April 2025 from Dakota State. Private school does not publish pay |
| Minnesota Crookston | Bryan Beamish | $80,000–$95,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Fifth season |
| Jamestown (private) | Casey Bruggeman | $75,000–$88,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Third season. Private school does not publish pay |
Sorted by pay (midpoint where a range is given). “Unconfirmed” means we found no payroll record, contract or news report behind the figure; it comes from a compiled conference file. “Estimated range” figures are not individual salaries.
What the numbers show
- Pay is tightly packed. Fourteen of the 16 midpoints fall between $81,500 and $112,500. Only Minnesota State and Duluth are above that band.
- The national champion sits well above the field. Margenthaler’s $188,620 is about 54% higher than the next-highest midpoint (Duluth, $122,500).
- Private schools are not paying more. Four of the five private schools have midpoints at or below $95,000; Augustana ($110,000) is the exception.
- Federal averages put Duluth and Bemidji State at the top. Averaged across all men’s teams, Minnesota Duluth ($279,778) and Bemidji State ($195,724) pay head coaches the most; Mary ($57,923) pays the least. Those figures cover every sport, including Division I men’s hockey at Duluth and Bemidji State, and are not basketball pay.
Assistant coach pay
We did not find a payroll record, contract or news report for any NSIC men’s assistant coach. A compiled file lists assistants and associate head coaches at roughly $42,000 to $78,000, but we could not confirm any of it, so no assistant figures are published here.
School-wide averages (federal data)
Every college that offers athletics reports average coach pay to the U.S. Department of Education. These are averages per full-time coach across all men’s teams at each school (2024–25 reporting year), not basketball only and not individual salaries.
| School | Average head coach, men’s teams | Average assistant coach, men’s teams |
|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Duluth | $279,778 | $109,069 |
| Bemidji State | $195,724 | $112,941 |
| St. Cloud State | $179,333 | $76,411 |
| Minnesota State (Mankato) | $171,136 | $65,997 |
| Minot State | $113,355 | $72,046 |
| Southwest Minnesota State | $109,329 | $50,806 |
| MSU Moorhead | $107,070 | $36,801 |
| Winona State | $105,003 | $57,299 |
| Northern State | $104,143 | $46,206 |
| Augustana (private) | $103,636 | $31,578 |
| Wayne State (Neb.) | $99,529 | $46,939 |
| Sioux Falls (private) | $79,435 | $38,574 |
| Concordia–St. Paul (private) | $75,444 | $49,161 |
| Minnesota Crookston | $72,026 | $50,450 |
| Jamestown (private) | $59,315 | $37,069 |
| Mary (private) | $57,923 | $24,249 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act data, 2024–25 (ope.ed.gov/athletics).
Data notes
- Eleven member schools are public (eight in Minnesota, plus Northern State, Minot State and Wayne State), so their pay is public record, but we could not search state payroll databases for this report. Augustana, Concordia–St. Paul, Sioux Falls, Mary and Jamestown are private and do not publish pay.
- Nearly every figure is an estimated range from a compiled conference file, not an individual salary. The file labeled them “verified”; we found nothing to support that, so we treat them as unconfirmed.
- Coaches were checked against the NSIC’s 2026–27 men’s preseason poll and school announcements.
Photo: fans at a Northern Sun Conference basketball game in Sioux Falls, March 2015. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Luke Olson (U.S. government work, public domain), via Wikimedia Commons; cropped.
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